- Maj. Winchester: [Charles is temporarily in charge of the motor pool] Fine job of work, Rizzo. Every valve. Every disc must be removed from the Jeep and placed on the sheet in its assigned order.
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Major, I don't understand, why am I taking this Jeep apart? It was working just FINE!
- [Slams down gasket]
- Maj. Winchester: On the sheet, Rizzo. On the sheet. On the sheet. Don't you understand the power you have here? You can take a Jeep apart and reduce it to an inert pile of junk and whenever you want--at a whim-- you can fit it together again and it will roar back to life. If only we could do that with human beings. They wouldn't die.
- Col. Potter: Are you also aware that you could get killed up there?
- Charles: Actually no, that thought hadn't occurred to me. That would be interesting, wouldn't it?
- Pvt. Markham: [a GI has just had a near-death experience. Charles is trying to find out what it was like] Sir, I really don't understand what you want.
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: When I was very young, my little brother passed away... I couldn't fully comprehend it at the time. But for months after the... accident, I was unable to pass his room without this... nameless fear. I would get a... tingling sensation in my chest and... my arms. And then yesterday, when I found out that I indeed had come close... Very close to death myself, that sensation returned.
- [B.J. enters]
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: But you were there. You were there. If only for a moment, and I must know what you felt.
- Pvt. Markham: I want to help you. I'm just tired. I think I want to get some sleep now.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Could I see you outside for a moment, Doctor?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Yes, of course.
- [They walk outside of Post-op]
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Yes?
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Are you alright?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Perfectly.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Nothing is bothering you?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Absolutely nothing.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Then what the hell is the matter with you? Every time I go into post-op, you're hovering over Markham like a ghoul. That's some graveside manner you've got...
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: As you recall, I am partly responsible for him being alive right now!
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Then let's let him rest in peace.
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Let me ask you a question, Dr. Schweitzer. Can you honestly stand there and tell me you've never wondered what it was like?
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: What what was like?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: What that boy went through right there! He was dead. Haven't you the slightest bit of curiosity about what lies beyond?
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: No, I figure I'll find out soon enough.
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Well, you may be able to cloak yourself in denial, but I am not afraid to face up to the harshest reality of all.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: [angrily] Let me give you another harsh reality, Doctor. Markham is *my* patient. You stay the hell away from him!
- Father Mulcahy: [Mulcahy is on garbage detail] There just isn't room for anymore.
- Col. Sherman Potter: Well, Padre, you gotta ditch it some place. Preferably down wind.
- Father Mulcahy: I can't. Winchester has all the transportation lying around in little pieces on bed linen.
- Margaret: That's what I want to talk to you about.
- [Hawkeye enters]
- Hawkeye: Colonel, the motor pool has been taken completely apart and Klinger has to get to the 8063rd right away.
- Col. Sherman Potter: Why?
- Hawkeye: Because...It's a long story, but whatever idiot was in charge of the mess tent before I was stuck me with 75 missing trays.
- Father Mulcahy: I'm the idiot who stuck you with those trays. And it was 50!
- Charles: [In a Jeep] Start you fool! START!
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Major, what are you doing?
- Charles: Why won't this idiotic engine turn over?
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: 'Cause, I tucked it into bed on that sheet over there like you told me.
- Charles: Well I must have transportation immediately. What's available? Do any of these work?
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Only the ambulance...
- [Charles runs for the ambulance]
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: But that's off limits except in a medical emergency!
- Charles: [Climbs in] This *is* a medical emergency.
- Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Where are you going?
- Charles: Battalion Aid!